Pass-fail assessment is the norm in preclerkship courses. These tips can help medical students optimize their learning and ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — On Wednesday, the State Board of Education approved a new grading system for students that will gauge a student’s performance on assessment tests every year. The new guidelines will ...
Across the state, schools have adopted grading practices known as “equitable grading,” which aim to reduce bias and give ...
Two years ago, Charlie Herzog asked: Should we continue to assign students grades in the traditional manner (percentages & letters), or should we move towards a system based on levels of mastery? I ...
Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) into higher education assessment has ...
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In their new book, Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To) (Harvard University Press), Jack Schneider, an education professor at the University of ...
This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. Although the fifth Monday of the semester — the last day for students to switch a course to pass-fail — has ...
In the spring of 2020, I served as a teaching assistant for a lower-division history course at the University of California, Los Angeles. The campus shut down just before spring break, and our class ...
Some internet eyebrows shot up this week over headlines like “San Diego school districts overhauls grading system to combat racism.” It turns out that what San Diego is doing is following in the ...